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With the publishing of "No Easy Day," a tell-all from a retired Navy SEAL about the raid that killed bin Laden, questions are being asked about how...
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 01:53
She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Radio Curious brings you an interview about torture from our archives in 2006. Our guest is Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, M...
- Added: Sep 03, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Dealing effectively with the threat posed by terrorism is the defining issue confronting the American military, the Department of Homeland Security...
- Added: Sep 03, 2012
- Length: 18:02
A Generation Putin *extra*: Audio postcard from a military jeep ride in the former Soviet stronghold of Balaklava, Ukraine.
Bought by HowSound, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 3
We bring you voices from Pakistan of families destroyed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists working to build a g...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Bryan Doerries discusses how bringing Greek tragedies to service members opens up new conversations. [30:31]
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 30:34
A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. [28:31]
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 2
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, with the world’s second-largest Muslim population, occupies a strategic geopolitical position between, and very m...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 01:13:32
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, with the world’s second-largest Muslim population, occupies a strategic geopolitical position between, and very m...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 01:16:21
Interactive, realistic, pro-war video games have become part of American culture. But protestors and artists are finding ways to turn the virtual ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]
Bought by WRVO
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 27:38
- Purchases: 1
Patriotism. Since the birth of the nation-state, humans have equated fighting in battle on behalf one’s country as the ultimate form of patriotism....
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 29:11
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Matthew White about his book, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things, which documents, analyzes, and ran...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:30
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Dr. James Robertson, the author, professor, and famed historian, on his new book-The Untold Civil War: ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 27:30
It takes great courage to rescue orphaned baby chimpanzees from a country in the middle of a deadly war. But Annie Olivecrona flew from Kenya into ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 28:54
Reese Erlich brings us a special report from Libya on the chaos that remains in the wake of the overthrow of hated dictator Muammar Gaddafi. While ...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 29:01
A recent report showed that the American arms industry made billions last year selling to states with questionable human rights records. Should a g...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Army National Guard Capt. Zachariah Fike speaks with Adeline Rockko about returning her brother's lost Purple Heart medal.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 01:48
- Purchases: 2
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 1
Famous author of Civil War classic "The Red Badge of Courage" uses sports metaphors/images to describe a war he never experienced.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:33
Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:34
Now that her kids are grown up, it's not them keeping Jane up at night—it's her father.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 04:26
- Purchases: 1
Japanese-American shows uncommon courage on and off the basketball court during WWII.
- Added: Jul 01, 2012
- Length: 02:36
